Mancilla, Manuel

He was born in 1897 in the city of Arequipa, Peru. His work as a photographer spanned from 1915 to 1955. He worked as a photojournalist for important magazines and newspapers of his time. He produced postcards of almost the entire southern Andes and Bolivia, which were widely commercialized. It appears that Manuel Mancilla's archive was destroyed by the residents of the neighborhood where he lived. The Mello family, neighbors of the photographer, recounted how their children played with the glass plates and washed them one by one in a large tub. However, part of Mancilla's work survived through his postcards, preserved in family albums and antique shops. The same Mello family mentioned that Mancilla might have died around 1953, after which no one claimed his belongings or occupied his studio in Portal Flores.